http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070106/ts_afp/usiraqmilitaryhaditha_070106060242US marines killed Iraqis one by one in Haditha: report
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - An investigative report compiled by the US military indicates that US marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha,Iraq, The Washington Post has reported.
Citing the document obtained by the newspaper, the account said that Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one after marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the explosion, which killed one marine and injured two others.
Another marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground, the paper said, citing the military report.
"The taxi's five occupants exited the vehicle and according to US and Iraqi witnesses, were shot by Wuterich as they stood, unarmed, next to the vehicle approximately ten feet in front of him," The Post quotes the report by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as saying.
One of the witnesses, Sergeant Asad Amer Mashoot, a 26-year-old Iraqi soldier who was in the marine convoy, told investigators he watched in horror as the four students and the taxi driver fell..........